After dragging Han San to the side, Long Feicheng couldn't help but cup his fists to Han San and say, "I thought Lu Bu was invincible under heaven, but I didn't expect Brother Han to be even more courageous. This junior admits defeat and will recognize you as king from now on!"
From now on, Han San would no longer be Han the Simp.
But the King of Simps!
The King of Simps – Han the Dog King!
Kong Xuan was still a bit sad about not getting Xu Qian's contact information. Yan Shouyi could only comfort her a few words:
"In our line of work, we can't fall in love casually, otherwise, we'll be easily restrained. I believe Xu Qian thinks the same way."
Kong Xuan was understanding and didn't dwell on it. However, Yan Shouyi knew from her gaze that this girl probably wouldn't give up so easily.
But this had nothing to do with Yan Shouyi anymore, as it was between her and Xu Qian.
Yan Shouyi left a few talismans for expelling ghosts and breaking evil at Kong Xuan's home, hidden in her window, doorframe, and under the bed. This way, ordinary little ghosts would not dare to run rampant in her house.
Xu Qian deliberately found an excuse to go downstairs and wait for Yan Shouyi and the others.
When Yan Shouyi finished his work and had comforted Kong Xuan, he went downstairs, but Xu Qian was nowhere to be seen.
"Where is he?" Yan Shouyi asked, puzzled.
Could he have been scared away by Kong Xuan?
Han San chuckled, "It's good that he left. Now I can go simp… damn, chase Xuanxuan by myself!"
Just as the four of them were wondering, a person with a painted face suddenly emerged from a corner. Long Feicheng was the first to see him and cried out in alarm, almost drawing his Caiwei sword to strike.
Fortunately, the person with the painted face quickly shouted, "Don't! It's Jiao Jiao!"
"Meng Te?" Long Feicheng quickly stopped his hand, holding the Caiwei sword and cursing, "Why are you staying up late in the middle of the night and painting your face like that to scare people? I almost took you down thinking you were a headless ghost from a black magic sorcerer!"
Meng Te covered his face and said, "I heard movement, so I hurried downstairs to check. But I waited and waited and didn't see you. Instead, I saw a handsome young man."
"Is that Xu Qian? Where is he?" Yan Shouyi asked.
"That young man was so handsome, I couldn't help but go up and ask for his contact information. As a result, he was also startled by me and turned around to punch me." Meng Te moved his hands away, and everyone could finally see clearly. Although Meng Te's makeup was scary, his dark circles were real, and he had a nosebleed. He looked quite pathetic.
"Afterward, the young man realized he had hit the wrong person and apologized to me. But as soon as I opened my mouth, he realized I was a man and was so scared that he ran away."
Yan Shouyi sighed. He guessed that Xu Qian had also had a rough night, and even though the female ghost couldn't do anything to him, he was scared away by Meng Te.
He had wanted to chat with Xu Qian for a while longer, but now that Xu Qian had left, he had no chance. He could only wait for Xu Qian to contact him to see if Grandma Shen was willing to meet him.
Yan Shouyi had to take tonight's events seriously. The situation in Qiantang seemed much more complicated than in Rongcheng.
However, he finally felt like he was back to the days when he followed his grandfather on his travels, having made a new friend, and this friend was quite powerful.
After the commotion tonight, it was already past four in the morning by the time everyone changed hotels and settled in to sleep.
Meng Te, having been beaten, also meekly went home. He promised to bring Kong Xuan to find Yan Shouyi and the others again the next afternoon. Yan Shouyi initially wanted to refuse, but since Long Feicheng and the others agreed, he could only comply.
They moved to a slightly better hotel – after all, although Yan Shouyi was not rich, Lin Zitong was. Lin Zitong would not let Yan Shouyi suffer, so she arranged a five-star hotel for them from afar.
After checking into the hotel, Yan Shouyi began to re-examine the roster given to him by Weng Qianxiang.
The roster contained a lot of useless information, with only about fifty useful entries. Yan Shouyi then filtered out the descendants of folk sects related to Qiantang.
After this filtering, he actually selected three people!
The first of these was Xu Qian's master, Xu Zhiping, the night watchman.
According to the information in the roster, Xu Zhiping should be in his fifties. He grew up in Qiantang, and at the age of thirty, he took over the position of the previous night watchman. He started traveling all over Qiantang, wherever there was trouble, and never sought fame or fortune.
The roster also stated that Xu Zhiping had no partner or children in his life, but it did not mention whether Xu Zhiping had any disciples.
As for Xu Zhiping's disappearance, it must have happened after the roster was written, so it was not mentioned in the roster.
The second person was the Grandma Shen mentioned by Xu Qian, the mortician Shen Shuzhen.
It was said that Shen Shuzhen was born from a dead person. A child born from a dead person's womb means a child who crawled out of a dead person's belly. Some pregnant women who were ten months pregnant died unexpectedly. However, even though the mother died, the child survived stubbornly. Such children are born with the ability to see evil spirits and are incredibly resilient.
It was no wonder that Shen Shuzhen eventually became a mortician. This was probably her destiny from birth. Unfortunately, children born from dead people were not accepted by people in the past, and most people considered them unlucky. Shen Shuzhen must have been bullied a lot in the past.
The roster also stated that Shen Shuzhen had a peculiar personality and disliked talking to living people. Instead, she preferred to converse with corpses while performing mortuary rituals. Even other descendants of folk sects were scared stiff when they saw Shen Shuzhen.
The identity of the third descendant of a folk sect was even more interesting.
This person was named Cui Yanjiang, and his identity was a corpse burner.
At first glance, a corpse burner might not seem like a descendant of a folk sect. After all, the ancient custom was burial in coffins, and cremation was a burial method advocated later.
However, corpse burners have actually existed since ancient times, and their status was not much lower than that of morticians.
Because cremating a corpse was not as simple as just burning it with a large fire. Ordinary flames could only char the body; it was not easy to burn it into ashes.
Moreover, ordinary dead people in ancient times were not sent for cremation. Those sent to corpse burners for cremation were definitely bodies with strong resentment or malevolent energy, bodies that could potentially reanimate. After reanimation, one could find Taoist priests or corpse drivers to deal with them, but before reanimation, finding a corpse burner was the most reliable option.
What made Yan Shouyi even more concerned was Cui Yanjiang's other identity – he was the husband of the mortician Shen Shuzhen!
Unexpectedly, among the people on this roster, there were three descendants of folk sects in Qiantang, and two of them were a couple!
If Xu Qian sent news tomorrow and he could meet Shen Shuzhen, would he also be able to meet the corpse burner Cui Yanjiang?
He wondered if Cui Yanjiang was still alive after all these years.